Presumably that was their expenses as MPs rather than ministers or shadow ministers. God knows why the MP for Mt Roskill needed to spend so much on surface travel. Did he pay to ship the Labour army in for the Mt Albert by-election?

Wake Up, Kelvin Davis is a Labour list member from Kaitaia (or somewhere else up north. You will see the travel costs for all MP's based in Northland are extremely high - which indicates the air fares to and from that part of the world are exorbitant.

Davis happens to be one of the very few Labour MPs with a track record of outstanding success outside Parliament. (He was a school principal.)